Transcript of "Are We There Yet"

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and I don't feel any different
, you say; Lord do you even
know I'm here?

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When people become
Christians, they don't at the same
moment become nice. This always
comes as something of a surprise.
Conversion to Christ and his ways ‘
doesn't automatically furnish a
person with impeccable manners
and suitable morals. The people of
Corinth had a reputation in the
ancient world as an unruly, hard- For were two or f/ we
drinking, sexually promiscuous “"“"’ “’7“"" "" "'7 """"
bunch of people. When Paul arrivedﬂsere Am I w/ {A {Aer-a.
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with the Message and many of them
became believers in Jesus, they
brought their reputations with them
right into the church.

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Paul spent a year and a half with
them as their pastor, going over
the Message of the ”good news"
in detail, showing them how to _.
live out this new life of salvation "
and holiness as a community of
believers. Then he went on his
way to other towns and churches.
Sometime later Paul received a
report from one of the Corinthian
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also received a letter from
Corinth asking for help.

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Factions had developed, morals
were in disrepair, worship had
degenerated into a selfish grabbing
for the supernatural. It was the kind .9.
of thing that might have been * . , ""3
expected from Corinthians! Paul's
first letter to the Corinthians is a
classic of pastoral response:
affectionate, firm, clear, and
unswerving in the conviction that For More two or f/ we
God among them, revealed in Jesus “’”“" “’7‘"""" "" "'7 """"
and present in his Holy {here Am / w/ ‘5/~ ﬂier»-
Spirit, continued to be the central ""“"“’“ “"2”
issue in their lives, regardless of
how much ofa mess they had made
of things.

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Paul doesn't disown them as
brother and sister
Christians, doesn't throw them out
because of their bad behavior, and . .~‘.
doesn't fly into a tirade over their * . . ‘if
irresponsible ways. He takes it all
more or less in stride, but also takes
them by the hand and goes over all
the old ground again, directing
them in how to work all the For were two or fives
glorious details of God's saving love “’”"’ “’? ‘"""" "" "'7 """"
into their love for one another. {Aer-e Am I w/ {A diam.
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Ephesians 4:1-6
To Be Mature
1'3|n light of all this, here's what I
want you to do. While I'm locked
up here, a prisoner for the I
Master, I want you to get out there
and wa| k—better yet, run! —on
the road God called you to travel. I
don't want any of you sitting
around on your hands. I don't For were two or fives
want anyone strolling off, down “"“"’ “’? ‘"""" "" "'7 """"
some path that goes nowhere. And {here Am I w/ ﬂu ﬂier»-
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mark that you do this with humility
and discipline—not in fits and
starts, but steadily, pouring

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Ephesians 4: 1-6
yourselves out for each other in
acts of love, alert at noticing
differences and quick at mending '5‘.
fences. “You were all called to , §""», .,. .t_' "j" '
travel on the same road and in
the same direction, so stay ‘f
together, both outwardly and ﬁt‘
inwardly. You have one ’
Master, one faith, one For More fave or was
baptism, one God and Father of ‘°"" “’5‘““' "" "'7 "‘”“'
all, who rules over all, works {here er» I N/ as ‘thew-
through all, and is present in all. ""““" ""2"
Everything you are and think and y
do is permeated with Oneness.

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17‘1-°’And so I insist—and God
backs me up on this—that there
be no going along with the
crowd, the em pty-
headed, mindless crowcl. They've
refused for so long to deal with
God that they've lost touch not
only with God but with reality
itself. They can't think straight
anymore. Feeling no pain, they
let themselves go in sexual
obsession, aclclictec! to every sort
of perversion.
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‘there Am I wffh fhem.

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2°'2“But that's no life for you. You
learned Christ! My assumption is that
you have paid careful attention to
him, been well instructed in the truth
precisely as we have it in Jesus. I
Since, then, we do not have the
excuse of ignorance, everything and I
do mean everything connected with
that old way of life has to go. It's
rotten through and through. Get ridFof were two or fives
it! And then take on an entirely new “’”“’ “’? “"" "" "'7 """"
way of life a God-fashioned life, a Iiféere Am I w/ {A them.
renewed from the inside and working “"‘“"“’“ “"2”
itself into your conduct as God
accurately reproduces his character in
you.
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Are We There Yet?
Jesus hasn't come back to ’£_. {;: g‘~
claim his Children, and ‘, §'‘g~. ._-_n. . '
no one knows when " '
that'll be. So there's still Q‘ ‘
a little time, but don't ‘
Just cut a path. walk it . =.. ... . . .a. ...
daily. He looks for doers mm *0:-“W "~ --v «M-
of his word, not mere {here an» I w/ fl. {A993-
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speakers of it.

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Are We There Yet?
The road to a changed .
heart is long and -I _ *~ ° ‘ Ii:
never ending. The
journey is to be made
step by step and you
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your own, you must M. .. ¢. .,. ..a. .r . -.. .. , . ... ... ,
walk with the Jesus. {Aere N. .. / ma, a, ,_. ,,. .,
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